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Not really as down South. Firewood is more about form than function in the Home Counties, so I sell the nice uniform ash and beech off the processor and use the scabs myself or sell to friends for £20 a bag. I'd only get £30-40 a bag to a customer, so not worth the time for a lad to deliver it when they would otherwise be taking a £90 bag of 'neat' logs.

Yup, even with my £5k woodland mills 130 max I can make a veneer cut quite happily. Ripper 37s, the wider type.

Easiest way to remember is to get it wrong once next to a greenhouse. You won’t forget next time. Not me, another tree team. I was just there scrounging some oak butts for the mill.

Briggs and scrap em. They’ve always been shit.

And we all agree it’s a bad idea to feed alcohol to children. However plenty of parents think they are doing the right thing by opting for ‘sugar free’

FFS. Well, it was good while it lasted.

Put yer hand in yer pocket and buy the pauper model! You've seen my 130, it's a good value machine.

The only silver lining is that we are ‘keeping our powder dry’ so to speak. The oil will still be there when all this nonsense is finished with and we really need it.

Interesting article. I'd say it's worth a shot, it couldn't be any worse really!

Selling firewood is much like selling drugs. All cash, the end user gets a warm fuzzy feeling until they run out, and most importantly, the dealer should avoid using their supply! The mill extension is providing very handy for a chop saw, to cut anything. It’s freed up a bench in the workshop that previously held a chopsaw for infrequent use. It’s much better with the bunks providing a decent length of holding capability. Post weathertops are child’s play- as is bagging up the scabs without moving them five times!

It's a joke that's been doing the rounds on the internet for a while.

Or not... What a rollercoaster 24 hours.

My local estate are trying to make bracken compost, but all they seem to manage to do is break the cut and collect.

Lithium grease for bearings, moly grease for pins and bushes. 'Sealed bearings' where there is a grease nipple just refers to the seal which keeps the grease from contamination. Usually plastic, sometimes steel for heavier duty applications with a risk of damage (flail mower picking up wire etc- although there will usually be secondary welded guards to prevent this). You won't 'pop the seals by overgreasing'. Grease will easily get out around the edges, especially when viscousity decreases with heat from friction in use. Therefore, it is sensible to grease a bearing after use, to replenish lost grease, and when the housing is warm to enable the grease to flow better. Seals are there to prevent the bearing from being easily contaminated, and perform this function well. To prove all this, see the below pics I just took for you. A typical bearing housing assembly for a flail or chipper. 'Triple sealed' as it says on the box. Ten pumps of grease, cold, and it starts oozing out- but there's no chance of those seals 'popping out'

Obvious once you've done any winching and are not a complete retard, but catches many out with often disastrous consequences!

Could be worse, he could be offering a masterclass in how to run a tree surgery business... LIMITED SPACES REMAINING! (yeah right)

That's the route I'd so, so long as your tractor is big enough as @difflocksays.

No idea, but they or an ex squaddie are exactly the suckers people in your position should be looking for if you want to cash in...

It's worth the value of the tools in the current market plus whatever anyone values to 'goodwill' at. Can be a good sum if you can find an idiot with redunancy who wants their own business , can also be (most likely) naff all, as you have no ongoing contracts. Locally if I was looking to expand it might be worth a few K. But there's nothing stopping your customers from going elsewhere (particularly if it's you they like dealing with). 'Selling' the customer list is almost certainly a no-no with the new GDPR regs also.

Yup, unless they have managed to surface there is feck all anyone can do even if they locate them. Surely the most likely place for it to be is where it was headed, to the wreck?

Looks great but why the heck didn't you just fit a new socket?

Regardless of who's fault the original inflation was, the government know they can't hope to control inflation by raising interest rates if they then give a subsidy to mortgage holders. It's worse that way than just leaving the rates low, as the effect is the same either way but with a subsidy they have to borrow more on the national debt.

That's small fry. This is the bill for kicking the can down the road and then keeping rates needlessly and shamelessly low for well over a decade following the 2008 banking crisis. And to top it off, we just imported cheaper goods and workers to keep us feeling rich. The over-leveraged should have been left to go to the wall, instead they were rewarded, more people were forced to join the Ponzi scheme to put a roof over their heads and now we are facing a seriously painful time. Asset inflation has divided society. An average job doesn't pay for anywhere near a historical average standard of living, and those who work harder not only recieve a fraction of the lifestyle the same efforts would have afforded them a generation ago, but are taxed into oblivion. Meanwhile those with assets are barely taxed upon them. Zero interest rates have destroyed this country. There's no way out without extreme pain or possibly even bloodshed. It really is that bad.

Does anyone know what bar mount these use? All the markings on the existing 15" 1.6mm 3/8 Oregon bar have worn away...

Only if you are the active farmer and you require the chippings for an agricultural use such as cow bedding.